Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1940 — Page 1

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TEMPERATURE MILD HERE AS EAST SHIVERS

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LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a. nm ...24 10am... 7a. m ...25 lam... 8a. m ... 25 12 (nbdon). 9am ...% 1pm...

By UNITED PRESS Indianapolis shared today in the mild temperatures which replaced abnormal cold in the Midwest as an Arcticborn mass of frigid air moved to the Atlantic Seaboard, extending from New England fo

the northern tip of Florida. Forecaster A. J. Knarr of the U. S. Weather Bureau at Chicago said that moderation from the two-cay siege of cold would be general from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic States by nightfall, with _ markedly milder weather in, the

North Central and Plains States. Intermittent light snows were predicted for the Midwestern States from Canada to the Ohio River tonight and Tuesday but Mr. Knarr said no severe snow is expected.

‘Snow Flurries End

Snow flurries which accompanied * the van of the cold wave had ended this morning, Mr: Knarr said. The only other precipitation in the nation was the heavy rain in California Sunday, where moisture totals: ranged to two inches. It will be warmer tonight and tomorrow in Indianapolis, the Weather Bureau forecast. Tomorrow there will be light rains. The lowest temperature tonight will be about 35, the Bureau predicted. The lowest temperature. over the week-end was 16 at 7:30 a. m. yesterday and the average for yesterday was 22 which is 11 degrees below normal. - If the minimum prediction for tonight is borne out, temperatures will be several degrees above normal tomorrow.: Sub-zero readings were general today in New England and the northern Appalachian Mountain region and freezing temperatures were recorded in the northernmost section of Florida, in Geoigia and Alabama.

Above Normal Due

The cold wave was neither as severe nor as general as the record attack of sub-normal weather a month ago which damaged crops in the southern states and imperiled life through the Midwest and East. The Central-Southérn sectors suffered only minor drops in temperature and no sub-freezing weather during the week-end. By tomorrow, the Weather Bureau in Chicago said, above-normal weather will prevail in the Central states and will extend to the Allan Seaboard by tomorrow

night,

1 DEAD, 2 WOUNDED IN POLITICAL DUEL

JACKSON, Ky., Feb. 26 (U. P.).— Fred Deaton, 27, one-armed son of the: sheriff of feuding ‘Bloody Breathitt” County, was reported in serious condition at a Lexington, Ky., hospital today with leg wounds inflicted during a pistol duel over political differences almost two years old. His opponent, state tax collector Lewis Combs, 34, was dead. The two had met in front of the town postoffice and before passersby were aware of what was happening they had drawn pistols and begun firing at close range. Combs was shot in the chest and fell mortally wounded. Deaton was wounded four times in the legs. Martha Ellen Johnson, 17, a high school student, was struck in the leg by a stray bullet.

WALLACE PROTESTS FARM BILL SLASH

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (U.P)— Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace asked the Senate today to restore $244,000,000 cut, by the House from President Roosevelt's farm budget for the next fiscal year. In a statement prepared for delivery before the Senate Agriculture Committee which is considering the House-approved agriculture appropriation bill, the secretary will sdy that the reductions would be “false economy” and that “for every dollar saved, several would be lost.” The appropriation bill, as now before the committee, provides for $857,000,000, a reduction, Mr. Wallace said, of $571,000,000 below the 1940 fiscal year appropriation.

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SAID ERNIE PYLE: “Mr. Minister, how's things along the Wabash?" ‘ANSWERED MEREDITH NICHOLSON:

"Ernest, things are all right. Why don’t you come up for supper.” And so—

In far-off Nicaragua, a ~ couple. of Hoosiers have a swell time together.

2 Ernie tells about it on : Page. i.

(Rev. E. L. Hutchins of Irvington

|dience.”

Premier Musselini , . . Gives Welles hour in palace.

‘ROME, Feb. 26 (U. P.)—Sumner Welles, President Roosevelt's special envoy to £urope, conferred at Venice

Palace with Premier Benito today.

ister Count Galeazzo Ciano, h

Mussolini for. one hour late

Earlier, after a conference with Italian Foreign Min-

e had decided to shorten his

Rome visit and proceed directly to Berlin at midnight,

Tuesday.

The talk with Count Ciano, when Mr. Welles was accompanied by United States Ambassador William Phillips, lasted for 90 minutes and it was described officially as

“pleasant and cordial.

It marked the start of Mr, Welles’

delicate job of investigating the state of the war and the .

outlook for peace. Some observers believed

that as a result of his talk’

with Count Ciano, Mr, Welles decided to go to Berlin as soon as possible, thinking he would find a basis for discussions with Fuehrer Adolf Hitler and German Foreign Minister Joachim [von Ribbentrop.

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Welles Confers. With Mussolini: Goes to Berlin

While Mr. "Welles vista

Count Ciao, Myron C. api

lor,’ President Roosevelt's special envoy to the Vatican, visited Luigi Cardinal Maglione. Papal Secretary. of State,

preparatory to presenting his tomorrow.

“cided to speed his journey to

bility that he could confer again with Sig. ‘Mussolini and

tredentinls to Pope Pius Xn.

It was believed i in She gisriens that Mr. Welles. dé.

Tomorrow

Berlin because of the possi=

Count Ciano on his way back to the U. S. after visiting

Paris and London,

No definite arrangements for second conforeries with Count Ciano and Il ‘Duce had been made, however. Italian newspapers today published photographs of Mr. Welles’ arrival, but did not disclose the reason for his

visit or the fact that he woul

d visit other capitals.

‘Mr. Welles will leave Rome in a special car placed at his disposal by the Italian ‘Government. He will reach the Swiss frontier Wednesday afternoon, changing then

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Sumner Welles + « « Berlin is west stop on peace and war mission.

SMOKE STUDY TOBE STARTED

Groups Will Be Chosen This Week to Scan Plans For Abatement.

_Sub-committees of the Citizens’ LAdvisory Committee on Smoke Abatement will be named this week to study smoke reduction methods, City Councilman Albert O. Deluse, committee chairman, announced today. Among other abatement possibilities, the sub-groups will study proposals made recently by a similar group in St. Louis, Mo., to compel the use of smokeless fuels or stoker equipment, Mr. Deluse said. The St. Louis plan which involves enactment of special municipal legisolation, appeared ‘too drastic” to Citizens’ Committee’ members here. The committee, however, will not decide on the plan’s merits until it has been studied thoroughly, Mr. Deluse said.

City Processing Proposed

The proposal also would enable the city of St. Louis to process and sell smokeless fuels if private enterprise could not meet the demand. The processing would*be done: at a municipal plant which would run on a non-profit basis. City Council President Joseph G. Wood said he believed the St. Louis proposals “very drastic, probably unworkable here.” “It would be rather difficult to imagine imposing such regulations here,” he said. “There is no doubt but that compulsory use of smokeless fuels would work a hardship on many. citizens who can barely afford the cheaper soft coals.” The subcommittees also will study means of furthering smoke abatement education and the wider use of coke through price reduction.

Modern Plants Urged

Leroy J. Keach, Safety Board president, said he doubted if residential use of all the coke the Citizen’s Gas and Coke Utility can produce would make an appreciable difference in the smoke problem. “We have been working with smoke violators for several months, urging them to modernize their heating plants,” he said. “We have had considerable success in getting the co-operation of some of the city’s smoke producers. “The ultimate smoke producer is the man who-fires the furnace. If he can be taught to fire correctly, we'll have a marked reduction in our smoke niiisance.” Mr. Deluse said the subcommittees would be given various assignments and would report at a general committee meeting to be held early next month.

ROOSEVELT DIVORCES SHOCK METHODISTS

Consider Writing Letters to F. D. R. Children.

The Indianapolis Methodist Ministerial Association today considered writing to President Roosevelt's children telling’ them they had “shocked the Christian conscience” by their divorces. A resolution adopted by the Association at its meeting in Roberts Park Church authorized the executive committee to decide on the advisability of sending the letters. Dr. Guy O. Carpenter, Central Avenue Methodist Church, who introduced the resolution, said the letters should urge that the young Roosevelts set before the country an example of moral living that would be such as is becoming to the family of the first man of the nation, The matter. was left to the executive committee, headed by the

Methodist Church, when it was suggested such action by the Association might be interpreted as a political move. The Rev. R.”S. Mosby, Simpson Church, spoke on “Protest and Obe-

“ DIES READY TO RESUME WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (U. P.) — The Dies Committee meets in exec-

for new investigations of un-Amer-ican activities. Chairman Martin L. Dies said recently that next on the program were hearinys on

utive session today to discuss plans]

By SAM TYNDALL

While a small group of men watched form the sidelines at Souf Field today, a small yellow monoplane ran for a takeoff, rose timidly about. 75 feet, then just as timidly floated down for a landing. The men shook hands, patted each other on the back and all began talking at once. It was the first flight test of what is claimed to be the smallest and most radical airplane motor eve: developed. Designed by Lee Oldfield, famous race driver and inventor and developed by John E. Hogle, motor has no cam, no gears and no valves, but generates 50 horse power, weighs only 130 pounds and has less than 200 parts. Mr. Oldfield said the motor design is “so radical that I can’t even explain it.” He said he used to carry around a couple of spools with holes in them to try to explain itsprinciple to.others, “but I gave that The tiny power plant, the result of a year’s experimenting at the Stout Field headquarters of the operating company (National Motors, Inc.), is a barrel-type engine with a “wabble-plate” mechanism, having its three cylinders parallel to the shaft. It’s the “wabble-plate,” or conversion mechanism, that engineels say they can’t explain. Mt, Oldfield and Mr. Hogle don’t-even agree on each other's terminology. One calls it a two-cycle and the other a tur-bine-cycle. The engine weighs 30 to 40 pounds less than conventional motors of similar horsepower and has consicerable less engine bulk, which mealis great adaptability to streamlining. Because of the comparatively few number of parts (of which a startling few are moving), it is expected the engine will be much less e:-

HAIRCUT RATE HEARING IS SET

Union Files New Petition on Hours, Prices; Public Meeting Wednesday.

The State Barber Board today arranged a public hearing for Wednesday night in the State House on the proposed new price and hour regulations for barbershops in the Indianapolis area. The hearing will be on a new petition “filed by the local barbers union seeking re-establishment of similar regulations recently declared invalid by Circuit Court Juclge Earl R. Cox. The State Board last Nov. 15 promulgated regulations fixing the price of haircuts at 50 cents and the closing time for shops at 6 p. m. The Independent Barbers’ Assoiiation protested the regulations on the ground that the Board's procedure was illegal. Judge Cox, who last summer upheld the validity of the Barber Control Law, ruled that the State Board had not followed

ing the regulations. The barbers’ union last week submitted a new petition bearing what they said were the names of more than 80 per cent of the barbers here Under the State law, the Board is authorized to promulgate regulations upon petition signed by 80 per cent of any trading area.

YOUTH JAILED 10 DAYS ON SPEEDING CHARGE

A 10-day jail senence was imposed on a motorist convicted in Municipal Court of speeding 70 miles an hour early today on Keystone Ave. The motorist, Allen W. Kuhn, 19, of 3105 Wood St., also was fined $10 and costs on the speeding chaige, and $1 and costs for failure to stop at a preferential highway—Road 13 —by Coburn Scholl, judge pro tem. in Room 4. - Kuhn was arrested by State Patrolman ¥Fred J. Cogshall.

ROOSEVELT STUDIES - WHITE HOUSE MAIL

ABOARD THE DESTROYER ER LANG, Feb. 26 (U.P.).—President Roosevelt studied Whife House rail today as he cruised along the Central American Pacific coast. Two patrol planes from the Panama Canal’s air base arrived yesierday with pouches of mail and ddcumentary work which the President

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expects to complete before returm-| 1 alleged Communist ing through

Tiny, 3-Cylinder 'Wobble-Plate’ Engine Termed Success on 1st Flight Test Here

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Left to right, Lee Oldfield, Frank Griffin and John E. Hogle coe “fathers” ‘of the “smallest” airplane motor,

pensive to build than those now on the market. « Only the one motor has been built so far. Its design is so simple

Throws Light On Starlings

OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 26 (U. P.) —Congress please note: You can get rid of those starlings that roost around the Treasury. Building and other assorted Government edifices in Washington if you're willing to spend some ‘money on electric lights. @he starling problem haffled authorities here for weeks. They tried Roman candles, guns and even “scare-starlings” (stuffed owls)—but all to no avail until L. R. Henley, a building engineer thought up the light idea. He reported today that 13 150watt bulbs strung along the 150 foot front of his building had been 100 per cent effective.

SUES TO DETERMINE LEGALITY OF ‘LUCKY’

Club Names: Safety Board, Morrissey in Action.

A suit to determine whether a game similar to bingo may be played in Marion County. was filed against

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‘the Safety Board and Police Chief

Michael Morrissey ‘today in Room 2. “The complaint, brought by the Senate Club, Inc, a social and recreational organization, asks that the game of “Lucky” be declared a game of skill instead of a game of chance. Because of the nature of “Lucky,” played with balls. and cards and numbers, similar to bingo, Prosecutor David M. Lewis was believed 'to be considering the filing of an intervening petition in the case so his office could be represented in the litigation, : The Senate Club - contends the ‘money distributed in the game is won, on the basis of skill and not on chance. The complaint says the club has a Membership: of 800

200, 000 MOTORISTS ‘WITHOUT. 40. PLATES

About 200,000 diana. - motorists still | are without 1940 license plates with only three more days before the deadline, Mptor Vehicle Bureau officials estimated today. Full staffs will be on duty at the State House and at 24 branch offices over the state { the next three days to handle the last-minute rush. Frank Finney, . Buresu. director, reminded motorists.

{TRADE PROGRAM

‘| find “private employment again.

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it can be dismantled completely in less than 40 minutes. The conversion mechanism gives the motor (Continued on Page Three)

HELD PEAGE AID

Hull Urges Continuation of Pacts to Cushion Economic Shock After War.

_ WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (U. P.). —Secretary of State Cordell Hull told the Senate Fipance Committee today that extension of the reciprocal trade treaty program will help to cushion the economic shock which may be expected when 100,000,000 persons now engaged in war work throughout the world must

He said that the State Department is proceeding on the theory that after the end of the wars that are plaguing every continent except the Americas, either complete totalitarism or “sanity” will dictate trade policies. Mr. Hull's appearance before the] Committee opened the fight over Senate ‘passage of a bill to extend the trade.act three years. Indications were that the Senate would follow the House's example and pass the bill. “If we were to abandon the program,” he i “we would reduce to practically nothing the efficacy of the existing trade agreements as a means of safeguarding our exports from the inroads of war-time restrictions. The need for keeping alive the principles which underlie the trade agreements program is

{three : |planes hummed overhead.

FINNS GIVE UP KOIVISTO ISLE

(Tired Army Battles Outside

Viipuri; - Foreign Planes Arrive—Too Late?

By EDWARD W. BEATTIE JR. United Press Staff Correspondent

VIIPURI, Finland, Feb. 26.—The battle flag of Finland still flies from

tthe old castle tower at Viipuri and

foreign airplanes are in action over the Mannerheim Line, but they may have arrived too late to save the gateway city from the Red Army offensive. For Viipuri, 10 miles behind the battle lines, is a dead city in which hardly a building is habitable in the winter weather, where the streets are piled with debris and abandoned furhiture and where almost the only living things are pigeons and a few military sentries. . The Finns say that more and more defense lines are. being strengthened and ‘built up north and west of the city.

Fortress. Surrendered

An announcement in Helsinki however, said that the fortified is-

{land of IKoivisto had Dbeen ‘aban_|doned.

Just before . we entered Viiputi, ‘British “Glostér-Gladiator

“That's what we need to keep a town like Viipuri alive,” a Finnish officer reniarked. Foreign planes are now arriving, was understood, from many countries; They include Fiats and Marchettis. from Italy; Wrights from America; Gladiators from Britain, and Moranes, Caudrons and

|Blochs from France.

But it appeared unlikely that enough would arrive in time to save Viipuri. A tired but determined army is continuing its desperate defense, after 25 days of battle against the Russian offensive up the Karelian Isthmus. | The Finns declare that the Russians face new and staggering losses before they can hope to take the city or to join forces with other Russian troops operating north of Lake Ladoga. |

Claim Red Losses Heavy

In Helsinki, | Saturday night, Finnish sources estimated that the Russians had suffered from 80,000 to, 86,000 killed in the 25-day offensive against the Mannerheim Line. The old castie from which the battle flag streams has -stood for 640 years as the key to the “lock of Finland.” Around it the Nordic armies of Charles XII and other soldier-kings fought the Russian armies. Except for bursts of gunfire in the distance or the chatter. of machine gun fire from a Russian (Contirtued on Page Three)

STOCKS STEADIER AFTER EARLY DROP

New York stocks were steadier in afternoon dealings today — after plunging to new lows since Feb. 6 in early trading. Volume was light. Steel shares rallied as production this -week showed less decline than in the last few weeks. Tin prices gained ' sharply as export quotas were reduced drastically. At Indianapolis, hogs weighing less than 220 pounds sold 5 to 15 cents lower.

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Other weights were steady.

‘WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (U. P.) — Both Robert Lansing, Secretary of State in Woodrow Wilson’s War Cabinet, and Gen. John J. Pershing predicted in 1918 that totalitarianism would be revived in Etirope and that the World ‘War might have to he ‘fought again. “They opposed compromise “with the ruffians who brought on this horror” and advocated complete an nihilation of the German Army. Only by crushing “Prussianism so completely that it can never rise again,” and by ending “autocracy in every other nation as wel »..did |Mr. Lansing believe future’ -world peace could be assured. ‘These revelations were made tobday in publication by the State Dethe second volume of . Lansing’s confidential pa Soyering the years. tetwen 1014 and

Pershing Predicted Today's War, Lansing Papers Reveal

pers|ico. Mr. Lansing said Villa would enable him to remain portant factor in M andit

were mention of incidents closely paralleling current problems in the present war. They included revelations that: 1. Woodrow Wilson, in contrast to President Roosevelt who has established Western Hemisphere solidarity, failed to form an “all-Amer-ican solidarity” pact to preserve the integrity of North and South America. Chile balked at Mr. Wilson's

attempt to set up a powerful alli-|the

ance with Argentina, ‘Brazil and|

Chile,

2. United States’ relations with |¥

Mexico was giving this Government plenty of trouble in 1915. At one point Mr. Lansing proposed an arrangement for the Mexican bandit chieftain, Pancho Villa, to obtain funds fo retain his forces in Mexsaid. assistance to

Sticker Thief Stuck for Fine

On Dec. 11 there were quite a few people paying off traffic stickers. A man who had just received his receipt turned into the crowd ‘and then turned to the window and claimed a, man had stolen his receipt and escaped. : A duplicate receipt was issued to him, Several days ago, a man appeared with a second ’notice and, producing the stolen receipt, claimed it showed he had paid his ‘sticker. , Today, he and ‘the man from whom the original receipt had ‘been stolen were brought to Police Headquarters and after some time the man admitted theft of the receipt. He paid off and said he wouldn't do that again. ——————————————————————————

CLOSER GUARD ONF. D.R. ASKED

War Makes Work Difficult, Secret Service Chief Says ‘In Requesting Funds.

WASHINGTON, Feb, 26 (U. P.). —Increased protection for President |2 Roosevelt and: his family and $60,000,000 for soil conservation pay-

ments were provided for in a $90,089,843.11 deficiency bill the Appropriations Committee placed before the House today. The soil conservation fund was added at the last minute. It made the bill $55,979,296 above President Roosevelt’s budget request, but Committee members said that they had been told the Chief Executive would make a formal request for $60,000,000 soon. : Outside the soil conservation request, the Committee sliced $4,020,704 from Mr. Roosevelt's budget estimates, increasing to $274,000,000 the total shaved from budget requests to date. The soil conservation money, committee members explained, would be transferred from the 1941 Agriculture Department appropriations. Thus it makes no net change in the economy already approved by the House. The House is expected to pass the bill today. “The measure included $90,000 to pay salaries of this fiscal year. The work of guarding the President has been made more difficult, in the words, of Secret Service Chief Frank J. Wilson, “by conditions in this country arising as a result of wars in Europe. “This service ‘decided that it is absolutely essential to ificrease our force at once in order properly to protect the President of the United States and his family,” Mr. Wilson testified. “This decision was {Continued on Page Three)

(NAZI EXPERT DELAYS

RUMANIAN OIL TRIP

Plan to Widen Economic Co-operation Discussed.

BUCHAREST, Feb. 26 (U. P).— Dr, Karl Clodius, German economic expert who. was scheduled to arrive here today, has postponed his departure further conversations with his Government. Dt. “Clodius, it was said, will remain in Berlin a few days to discuss a more far reaching plan to

.}|be offered to Rumania for economic

co-operation with Germany under which Rumanian oil exports to Germany would be increased. After. signing a new commercial agreement with Italy in Rome last week Dr. Clodius returned to Berlin, e Under the plan now under con-

{sideration in Berlin, it was reported,

Germany - would guarantee Rumania’s frontiers for the duration lof the war. In exchange, it was said, Rumania would demobilize one million men now under arms and send them into the fields to produce more sgriculiursl Jroducts for

‘German. consume Meanwhile, Allied oll experts indicated that they would oppose force Ramana to ore i is i oll deliveries.

" Three thousand. tons of Russian oil.were forwarded to Germany yesterday. Ten thousand tons of oil drrived at Constanza last week in a Russian, et fron the first of an ex-

from Berlin pending.

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‘ODDS ONHITLER

Administration Discounts Its Own Observers, but Worries Anyway.

By LUDWELL DENNY Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.— Official confidential reports from certain ‘American observers abroad give Herr Hitler a 55-t0-45 chance of winning the war. These reports are discounted in high places here. But there they are. And the Administration is haunted by them.

They explain in part the sudden mission of Undersecretary of State Welles. They also serve to reinforce the Administration’s dangerous

{gamble - of cutting social - service

budgets but boosting Army and Navy appropriations. Although these official reports have an obvious propaganda value in support of a third term for .the President — if the Administration should decide to use them for that purpose—their course is not political and they were not made for such use. They purport to give a cold-blooded sizeup of present odds, with the understanding of course that the odds can and may change,

Hint Low-Country Offensive

In addition to giving facts, these reports also venture certain guesses regarding Herr Hitler’s plans. They think his offensive; when it comes, will be through the low countries. Of course the arguments for such

la German offensive have been well

known to Washington officials for a long time. If Germany tries to flank the Maginot Line, it probably will be easier on the. left than to come through Switzerland. There was. rather general belief here last September that Germany would repeat that World War strategy. But latterly it had been assumed that Herr Hitler had missed hischance to strike through Holland and Belgium, Those neutrals have greatly strengthened their defenses, France has taken advantage of the quiet on the Western Front to build a little Maginot Line on the ‘Belgium frontier. And the British Army is concentrated there. Of even more importance, the same fear of world opinion and hos= tility of other neutrals, which pre= sumably’ has prevented Herr Hitler thus far from violating Dutch» Belgian neutrality, would seem -to operate as a stronger deterrent as time goes on. :

Hitler Aims at Britain

But that is not the opinion of the official American observers abroad quoted above. They emphasize that the six months’ record, as well as their confidential information, indicates that Herr Hitler's purpose is. not to grab French territory, but to break: Britain. Although there are several ways in which Germany might weaken the British Empire by a successful drive toward the east, there are only two ways to strike at England directly and conclusively. One is with submarines and mines and the other is with bombing planes. As for the submarines and mines, it is pointed out, Germany is doing pretty well. She not only is sinking many ships carrying essential food and materials to England, she also has forced the British Navy to spread thin and even use dread noughts as convoys. German bombing planes are doe ing fairly well, but not well enough. They need bases closer to England. And those closer bases are Dutch or Belgian. Hence the guess of these American observers that Herr Hit~ ler—if the war continues, as erpected—will try to blast through the low countries. Germany’s stfength is reported increased rather than diminished by six months of war. Admitting that the British blockade of Germany was slow in taking hold and is a long-range weapon at best, these experts abroad think many years would be required to starve her out of food or military supplies.

Capital Give Allies Edge

However logical all this may sound, the high Washington officials who receive and evaluate these confidential observers’ reports definitely do not accept the conclusion that German chances of victory are 56 to 45. They cannot disprove the factual part. Buf, when it comes to guessing the future on the basis of those facts, they give the Allies the edge willy-nilly. . For one thing, they put more stress on the morale factor. They believe when the pinch comes the Allies can take it on the home front and that the Germans can’t, that the Germans won't be so enthusiastic about Herr Hitler When the’ casualty lists lengthen. But, even though the Administration does not believe its own ‘confidential reports from abroad, it stays up nights worrying about them, After all, who knows?

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